#billiken

[uo6ep]

1973.

[chernobog13]

The Golden Bat tin wind-up toy from Billiken.

I'd give your right arm - which I'd gladly sacrifice, by the way - to get one of these.

[arcadebroke]

[ortoysangre]

[eirikrjs]

Does the cuneiform on mot's coffin translate to anything or is it just gibberish?

Now, I'm no expert on cuneiform script, like, I don't even know a little bit, and to me these just look like no more than a "good enough" artistic embellishment on Kaneko's part.

From here

This is similar to the question of "what's written on Seraphs's fans?"

Eirikr is Stealing Knowledge

So there is an anon on Fandom insists that the Hebrew word on Seraph's fans reads "sanctus" backward. Can you post this to attract other Heb

And the answer to that question was also "nonsense, but it kinda resembled something legit."

I would go so far as to say the only language/script on a Kaneko design that is actually going to be meaningful is Japanese, considering it's his native language, and maybe some basic English.

On the left here we see the kanji on Uwabami's pot, which is 酒 (alcohol/sake), alluding to a connotation of the name in Japanese. On the right is Enku's bib, which reads 焰, "blazing" and can even be pronounced as "En."

And finally, the Billiken twofer, featuring his name in Katakana (ビリケン) and LUCK written on his feet because people rub the feet of the famous Billiken statue in Osaka for, well, good luck/wishes.

[topolino-gigio]

Some of Topo Gigio's appearances on covers of the Argentine children's magazine Billiken.

[palimundo]

Doing research for a leisure project by examining magazines from Argentina, I detoured to one from the 70s and had a good chuckle at this page. I thought ashtrays as a gift was more or less a joke, but then you have a child gifting it like a handmade card lol

Side-note, heavy appreciation for the illustrations themselves! Colors, fashion, design, all so GROOVY!

[yuthana]

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